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...July 15 deadline that President Clinton established for the Pentagon to draw up a policy on gays in the military, Defense Secretary Les Aspin gave his support to a proposal that the Joint Chiefs of Staff have approved but gay- rights groups bitterly oppose because it would still allow discharges for homosexual conduct on or off base. Though the proposed plan would discourage military investigations to identify homosexuals, it would generally allow soldiers and sailors to identify themselves as gay only to chaplains, lawyers and doctors. The military code would be revised, slightly, to make gay conduct rather than homosexual...
...against terrorist attacks and take the necessary measures to prevent such attacks." Howe is supported by the Pakistanis and others, who agree that Aidid must be removed from the scene if national reconciliation is to be achieved. That determination is shared at the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Les Aspin says bluntly, "There is no reason to change the course...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted at a meeting this spring to approve most of the report's recommendations. President Neil l.. Rudenstine has personally written letters to Clinton, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Sam Nunn (D-Ga.) urging them...
...related to funding for a Kennedy School seminar to be conducted by Blackwill for students at the Russian General Staff Academy, for which Blackwill was seeking private funding. The report said Allison mentioned the program to the Russian Defense Attache during a meeting in April and indicated that Aspin supported the program. Allison said at the time that Blackwill would be in Russia shortly to discuss the proposal with the General Staff Academy head...
Allison did not mention this conversation in a subsequent report to Aspin, the investigative report said. He later told investigators that Aspin had expressed eagerness to fund the project. Aspin said he "did not recall discussing whether Dr. Allison should convey to the Russian officials [his] support for the seminar...however, [he] indicated that if Dr. Allison had sought [his] approval, [Aspin] probably would have granted it," the report said...